Re:To make the perfect mirror, physicists confront the myste...
by chris_va on Friday April 03, 2020 @03:27PM
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AR coatings are not perfect at the interface boundary (kind of the same problem as a perfect mirror in reverse), plus glass has attenuation.
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Re:To make the perfect mirror, physicists confront the myste...
by mannykannot on Friday April 03, 2020 @07:34PM
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I get the point about glass attenuation, but with regard to AR (anti-reflection?) coatings, are you referring to the surface through which light enters the prisms? If those surfaces are normal to the laser beam, would the reflected light not still be contained within the beam path, just as it is in the case of a Fabry-Perot resonator?